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The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation

$342k
Granted FY2018
26
Grants FY2018
26
Organizations funded FY2018
58%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 26
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
12

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 58% of the organizations The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201826$342k58%
FY201724$343kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$110kEducation$105kRecreation & Sports$89kHousing & Shelter$80kHealth$77kHuman Services$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metanoia Inc$100,00027%
Washington City Mission$75,00011%
McNeese State University Foundation$70,00020%
Lemay Child and Family Center$50,00022%
Cincinnati Pride Inc$20,00024%
Notre Dame High School St Louis$15,0001n/a
Food Helpers$15,00011%
Vicksburg-Warren Co Chamber of Com$10,00013%
Distinctive Schools of Illinois$10,0001n/a
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank$10,00010%
Show all 24 grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetanoia Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWashington City Mission: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMcNeese State University Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLemay Child and Family Center: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCincinnati Pride Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFood Helpers: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVicksburg-Warren Co Chamber of Com: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNorthwest Louisiana Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe National World War II Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVmsn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMake-A-Wish Nevada: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southern Nevada: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpecial Olympics Idaho Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRebuilding Together - St Louis: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Citizens Foundation Dba Miracle Minds Therapy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Kentucky Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wynn Resorts FoundationNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation

How much does The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation give?
The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $341,500 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Education (15%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Metanoia Inc ($100k), Washington City Mission ($75k), McNeese State University Foundation ($70k).
Does The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wynn Resorts Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
Where is The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation based?
The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation is based in NV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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